The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others.

BIOSIGNALS encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers.
Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session.

› Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
› Wearable Sensors and Systems
› Real-time Systems
› Biometrics
› Pattern Recognition
› Fuzzy Systems and Signals
› Evolutionary Systems
› Neural Networks
› Speech Recognition
› Acoustic Signal Processing
› Time and Frequency Response
› Wavelet Transform
› Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
› Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear Dynamics
› Monitoring and Telemetry
› Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies
› Electromagnetic Fields in Biology and Medicine
› Cardiovascular Signals
› Image Analysis and Processing
› Detection and Identification
› Motion Control

› Mário Forjaz Secca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
› Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
EI already agreed to index the proceedings of BIOSIGNALS 2008. Proceedings of BIOSIGNALS 2009 and BIOSIGNALS 2010 are under evaluation and the proceedings of BIOSIGNALS 2011 will be evaluated by EI after their publication.

› Conference date: 26-29 January, 2011

› Regular Paper Submission: July 23, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): October 01, 2010
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 22, 2010

› Position Paper Submission: September 27, 2010
› Authors Notification (position papers): October 20, 2010
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: October 29, 2010

BIOSIGNALS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 5436
e-mail: biosignals.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/

Fabio Babiloni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Francis Castanie, TeSA, France
Jiri Holcik, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Narayanan Krishnamurthi, Arizona State University, United States
Marco Loog, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Mahdi Mahfouf, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Mihaela Morega, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan
Tuan Pham, University of New South Wales, Australia
Marcos Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Jianhua Ruan, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Carlo Sansone, University of Naples, Italy
Andres Santos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Peter Schelkens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
Iryna Skrypnyk, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Asser Tantawi, IBM, United States
Wallapak Tavanapong, Iowa State University, United States
Gianluca Tempesti, University of York, United Kingdom
Yuanyuan Wang, Fudan University, China
Didier Wolf, CRAN CNRS UMR 7039, France

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